Quotes About Courage

They say it's men with nothing to lose you should fear. But it's them who fear most.

To be brave among friends was nothing. To have the world against you and pick your path regardless–there is courage.

He shook his head as he peered down at the corpses. "Some courage, to come at us like this, over and over, against defences so strong and so well manned. I've rarely seen men so willing to give their lives." "They have that most strange and dangerous of qualities," said Cosca. "They think they're in the right.

You'd have to be a bold man to bet your life on what I'd dare. How bold are you? -Sand dan Glokta

Give Yarvi the knife since he has just one hand to hold it. One hand, perhaps, but the blood of kings in his veins!" "It's keeping it there that worries me," said Yarvi under his breath.

Enough pain makes a coward of anyone.

Bravery is the dead man's virtue.

Better to do it, than to live with the fear of it, and so forth.

Cuando hay que hacer algo, lo mejor es no demorarlo para no tener que vivir temiéndolo.

Few things indeed,' mused Pike, 'seem to have so much appeal before, and so little after, as a battle.

Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.

Solo se puede conquistar los miedos afrontándolos. Si los rehúyes, te conquistan ellos a ti.»

How you feeling Forley?' asked the Dogman. 'Bad, but you got to have fear to have courage.

Suffering is what gives a man strength, my boy, just as the steel most hammered turns out the hardest." The old man winced as he squatted down beside Jezal. "Anyone can face ease and success with confidence. It is the way we face trouble and misfortune that defines us.

Sometimes weakness is a better shield than strength,

That was the trouble with pride, and courage, and all those clench-jawed virtues bards love to harp on. The more you have, the more likely you are to end up bottom in a pile of dead men.

I am ready to die, but I refuse to lose.

Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are the dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe. Fear teaches you caution, and respect for your enemy, and to avoid sharp edges used in anger. All good things in their place, believe me. Fear can bring you out alive, and that's the very best anyone can hope for from any fight. Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.

Hard words are for fools and cowards. Calder might have been both, but Logen was neither. If you mean to kill, you're better getting right to it than talking about it. Talk only makes the other man ready, and that's the last thing you want.

Dimbik had once been told that the best soldiers are rarely courageous. That was when he had been sure it was the career for him. He started to slide one hand towards his sword, far from sure what he would do with it once it reached the hilt.

The first weapon you bring to any fight ain't a spear or an arrow or an axe." Flick blinked at him. "Sword?" "Surprise," said Clover. "Surprise makes brave men cowards, strong men weak, wise men fools.

Say one thing for Logen Ninefingers, say he's a fighter.

Bayaz chuckled. "The Bloody-Nine, scared of shadows? I'd never have believed it." "Every shadow's cast by something," growled the Northman,

You will be struck, and when you are the force of it must not stagger you, the pain of it must not slow you, the shock of it must not cause you to doubt.